Re: CHAT: Steg's wonderful .sig (and a question)

Boudewijn Rempt wrote:

> General linguistics tends to be taken for the wrong reasons, though,
> as an aside to specific language studies, by people more interested
> in literature. I don't know whether that's true in Scandinavia, too,
> but you might try to draw them on the literatures of their choice,
> to see whether they "are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will
> spue thee out of my mouth.", or are capable of enthousiasm.
It's certainly true here.  I think I've mentioned that about half
of the students in most of my linguistics classes are English
majors, or Comsci, or are otherwise taking it for nonmajor
purposes.  The hardcore students, those that study it for the
sake of studying it, tend to be... highly nonconformist :)

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